Showing posts with label schechtman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schechtman. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Philosophical Baby

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When George Bernard Shaw said that "some men see things as they are and ask why, others dream things that have never been and ask why n...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

St. Helena...again & again

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As I've said once before, I know this blog is usually reserved for loftier discussions, but the St. Helena, CA. School Board recall is o...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009

California Dreaming

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Joan Didion wrote of California, that "the dream was always teaching the dreamers how to live." Never was that California Dream mo...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Todd Purdum in Vanity Fair on the Wacko for Wasilla

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Todd Purdum, in the current Vanity Fair, has the latest must read on the Wacko from Wasilla. Andrew Sullivan, as always with Palin, sums ...

The gonzo version of the Middle East

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James Hider Middle Bureau Chief for The Times of London and author The Spiders of Allah: Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009

On the other side of the border...

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When we do talk about the issue of immigration, it's usually thorough the prism of preconception, politics and polemics. There is anothe...
Monday, June 22, 2009

Under the bridge..

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Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg, in their book Righteous Dopefiend, take us up close and personal into the world of homelessness and dr...
Friday, June 19, 2009

Leonard Bernstein - A political life

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From his conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. But always twinkling within tha...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

There's something happening here.... (fixed)

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Events in Iran are moving quickly, and any attempt by Westerners to fully understand the complexity and the dizzying array of actors and ins...

The Hidden Side of Hunger in America

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Amidst the housing meltdown, rising energy costs and an increasingly dysfunctional health care system, America's poor are also battling ...
Monday, June 8, 2009

Womenomics, a new workplace paradigm

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Woman are earning more college degrees and more graduate degrees.  Research has repeatedly shown that those companies that employ more woman...

Good Mother / Bad Mother

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Four years ago Ayelet Waldman sparked a controversy, and was forced to defend herself, when she wrote in a N.Y. Times essay that "she ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Who is Hugo Chavez and other tales of American failure

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The rise of Venezuela’s left-wing President, Hugo Chavez, is a lesson in what can happen when the U.S. disses an entire continent.  Who is ...
Monday, June 1, 2009

Bill Clinton's emerirtus years

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For almost twenty years Bill Clinton has been a part of the American political landscape. Now in his emeritus years, its a bittersweet stor...

To live and die in Pakistan

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If Pakistan is the central front in the war on terror, why don't we know more about it?  For years we have read and listened to reportin...
Friday, May 29, 2009

JOHN FEINSTEIN on Tiger vs. Rocco 2008

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The 2008 US Open produced one of the most unexpected and dramatic showdowns not only in Golf, but in sports history.  Tiger Woods, the champ...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

Work/life balance and your money

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David Leonhardt, in the New York Times,  looks at new survey on work/life balance and which careers provide the highest economic penalty for...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Sleeping with the enemy...

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Again, a marriage becomes the template to examine the socio-political storms swirling around the society. While previously we looked at mar...

The times they are a changing...and most politicians missed it.

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Matt Bai, one of the country's most astute political observers and reporters talks, in his recent N.Y. Time magazine  story, about how p...
Sunday, May 24, 2009

The future of journalism

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If you want to understand the future of journalism, watch this tour of TPM (Talking Points Memo). This is the newsroom of the future, with a...